Stirrings

So more snow. Yup. Its the third (or fourth?) lot of snow since december and although it didn't hang around it has finished off the broad beans, their strange skeletal shapes is a range of brown and yellows add a little backdrop to the veg patch, although i would have preferred to have some damn broad beans early this season!

The shallots have come up but are half hearted and yellow rather than the deep green thick shoots i got with the later planting last season. I will see if they recover and reshoot but it may be that they also need to be resown. However the garlic is just peeking above the ground and so i hope it might end up being successful, having read more about the 'ideal' conditions i should have planted it nearer the fence where it is drier but we shall see.

While poking around the ground to see what else may have died/survived against the climatic odds i discovered a fat healthy almost looking like it was born to grow in the depths of winter - limanthus. Poached Egg Plant. Well I never. HOW???

I have been saving 2 & 5 litre plastic bottles to use as heat storage for my plastic greenhouse. I was going to try it last year but never had the space, this year i am going to just grow 3 tomato plants but train them properly so they produce the same amount 5 did last year. I'm also going to work harder with the tumbling tomatos to grow them in more unusual places - watch this space............